Patents Assigned to WÄRTSILÄ
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Patent number: 4376352Abstract: A closable passage arrangement interconnecting two spaces and comprising a closure unit having two passage openings each provided with a door or the like lockable with a locking bolt mechanism. Each door connects the closure unit to a different one of the two spaces. The doors are provided with driving means for their operation. The driving means comprises, for each door, a power transmission unit arranged to influence separately a mechanism for turning the door and a mechanism for operating the locking bolt mechanism of the door. The power transmission units of the doors are interconnected by means of a common shaft. The power transmission units include a pin-and-fork mechanism, wherein a rotatable power transmission member provided with crank pins or the like cooperates with a number of fork members. The driving means comprises a plurality of door operating stations each including a door operating member being directly or by means of the common shaft connected to the power transmission units.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1980Date of Patent: March 15, 1983Assignee: Oy Wartsila AbInventors: Pentti Soininen, Olle Henrichson
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Patent number: 4370875Abstract: A cylinder lock comprising a fixed cylinder housing and therein a turnable cylinder and a lock mechanism locking the cylinder to the cylinder housing. The turning of the cylinder is performed by means of the key of the lock after the key has set the lock mechanism in a cylinder-releasing position. Force transmission from the key to the cylinder is arranged to take part, in a first stage of the function of the lock, through a slipping clutch so arranged that when the turning force of the key exceeds a certain value, the elements enclosed in the cylinder and directly connected to the key are able to slip relatively to the cylinder in the turning direction of the key, in case the key has not set the lock mechanism in its correct cylinder-releasing position.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1979Date of Patent: February 1, 1983Assignee: Oy Wartsila ABInventor: Paavo Piiroinen
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Patent number: 4369853Abstract: The invention relates to an air-cushion vehicle comprising a hull, two air propulsion units located at a considerable distance from each other and one or several drive engines for the propulsion units. One of the propulsion units is located at the front end of the vehicle at one side of its longitudinal axis. The other unit is located at the rear end of the vehicle at the opposite side of said axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1980Date of Patent: January 25, 1983Assignee: Oy Wartsila AbInventors: Pentti Heijola, Fredrik Burmeister
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Patent number: 4367766Abstract: A slide valve with a slightly wedge-formed valve member arranged to close a flow duct by a cross-wise movement relative to the duct. There are annular sealing surfaces surrounding the flow duct and they are engageable by sealing side portions of the valve member for closing the valve. The sealing side portions of the valve member are considerably narrower than the annular sealing surfaces of the flow duct and are, in the closing position of the valve, located at a relatively great distance from the inner edge of the annular sealing surfaces. The sealing side portions of the valve member are of a softer material than the annular sealing surfaces, and hence, are subject to a repeated grinding against the annular sealing surfaces, when operating the valve. The sealing side portions of the valve member may be located each to a separate slide unit journalled in a body portion of the valve member. The slide units are in that case arranged to be slightly rotated by the opening movement of the valve.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1980Date of Patent: January 11, 1983Assignee: Oy Wartsila AbInventor: Vilho Uomala
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Patent number: 4364307Abstract: A cylinder lubrication system for a combustion engine. The lubricant is directed to the cylinder wall through a piston moving in the cylinder. The piston comprises a piston pin above which there are a plurality of piston rings sealing a combustion chamber at the top side of the piston. There is a lubrication groove in the outer mantle surface of the piston between the piston pin and at least a majority of the piston rings, preferably all of the piston rings. The lubrication groove is open in a direction outwardly from the piston and has lubricant feed ducts connected thereto from the inside of the piston. In the feed ducts the lubricant is subject to continuous pressure when the engine is continuously running.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 1980Date of Patent: December 21, 1982Assignee: Oy Wartsila ABInventor: Daniel Paro
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Patent number: 4363316Abstract: A vessel for food preparation having a bottom made of two different members, one of which is the actual bottom of the vessel and the other a separate bottom plate which is attached to the bottom of the vessel by means of several spaced-apart spot-formed or generally small-area attachment points. When the vessel is heated there will initially be a considerable temperature difference between the two layers of the bottom construction, which will give rise to small buckles in the separate bottom plate between its attachment points. Inside these buckles the air slot between the two layers of the bottom construction grows and this slows down the heat transmission to the inner surface of the vessel.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1980Date of Patent: December 14, 1982Assignee: Oy Wartsila ABInventors: Tiina Aakenus, Pekka Mertanen, Reijo Peltonen
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Patent number: 4351255Abstract: In an ice-breaking ship, having sufficient power and being generally designed for efficient ice-breaking, the breaking of the ice is made more effective by changing the zone of ice crushing and shearing which occurs at the stem during normal ice-breaking of level ice, to a zone where the breaking occurs due to bending. This is obtained by forming the front portion of the ship so that at least within the area where the stem contacts and breaks level ice, the basically wedge-formed stem is truncated to form a relatively broad runner-like portion being inclined forwards in a relatively small angle to the water line plane of the ship. The width of the runner-like portion is determined in conformity with the general ice-breaking ability of the ship, whereby the driving power (P) of the ship, in kW, and the maximum beam (B) of the ship at its design water line, in meters, forms the basis for calculating, in meters, the width (W) of the runner-like portion by means of the formula:W=(0.02 to 0.08)(P/B).sup.0.63.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1978Date of Patent: September 28, 1982Assignee: Oy Wartsila ABInventors: Bengt Johansson, Arno Keinonen, Eero Makinen
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Patent number: 4341586Abstract: An arrangement for selecting and feeding a wrapper from a storage unit to a big paper roll or the like. The storage unit comprises several wrapper rolls of different axial length and separate feeding means for each wrapper. The feeding means are in a substantially vertical line and there is a guiding unit for guiding the selected wrapper to a roll wrapping station. The feeding means operate as the main wrapper pulling and feeding devices of the arrangement. The guiding unit, which is provided with means for transversely cutting the wrapper passing therethrough, is movable mainly vertically and can be selectively positioned in front of any of the feeding means, preferably very close to them.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1980Date of Patent: July 27, 1982Assignee: Oy Wartsila AbInventor: Pauli Koutonen
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Patent number: 4339904Abstract: A roll packaging arrangement for applying headers or corresponding package units on paper rolls or the like of different diameter. The arrangement comprises a storage unit for the headers and an application unit including press members. Each header size has its own movable storage level, onto which headers are placed in a certain position and which are movable from a storage position to a working position for delivering headers of a desired size. There is a transmission member provided with catch means for transmitting a header from a storage level in a working position to a press member of the application unit. The location of the headers on the storage levels and the operation of placing a header onto the press member guided on the basis of the position of the header edge, so that the header, irrespective of the size of the roll to be packed, is placed in its proper place at the end face of the roll.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1979Date of Patent: July 20, 1982Assignee: Oy Wartsila AbInventors: Pauli Koutonen, Lars-Erik Alanco
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Patent number: 4336700Abstract: A cylinder lock comprising a non-rotatable cylinder housing and therein a key operated lock mechanism including a turnable cylinder and a plurality of movable locking discs. When the locking discs are in their zero position, that is, their normal position before the key is inserted into the lock, they keep the lock mechanism in a locked position, in which the cylinder is prevented from turning relatively to the cylinder housing. The locking discs are movable by the key to a cylinder releasing position, and the key forces the locking discs back to their zero position after operation of the lock mechanism. There are spring means arranged to urge at least some of the locking discs in a direction away from their cylinder releasing position towards their zero position. With respect to the normal function of the lock mechanism these spring means are functionally redundant. Their only function is to provide an improved security against lock picking.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1980Date of Patent: June 29, 1982Assignee: Oy Wartsila AbInventors: Arne Baltscheffsky, Alpo Karkkainen
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Patent number: 4333301Abstract: An arrangement for wrapping big web rolls. The arrangement comprises a support system for supporting and rotating a web roll and a frame surrounding the web roll and having means for leading a wrapper around the roll. The frame includes a guide strap and operating means for applying the strap on the mantle surface of the roll and for keeping the wrapper between the strap and the roll. The operating means has a support position, in which it supports a portion of the guide strap at a distance from the roll, thereby causing the guide strap to bend off at a certain point from the surface of the roll. For bringing the front end of the wrapper to follow the roll, the operating means can be moved around said roll. Whereby the bending-off point of the guide strap also moves around the roll and an increasing portion of the guide strap settles on the mantle surface of the roll to keep the wrapper closely thereon when rotating the roll during simultaneous feeding of wrapper thereto.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 1980Date of Patent: June 8, 1982Assignee: Oy Wartsila ABInventors: Pauli Koutonen, Lars-Erik Alanco
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Patent number: 4332192Abstract: A paper web treatment device is disclosed, which includes a nip forming roll pair. One of the rolls of the pair comprises a mantle portion rotatable on a central shaft portion. This roll is arranged to be moved in a radial direction for disengagement from the other roll. There are means for producing a mechanically guided rotary motion at both ends of the shaft portion simultaneously with the radial motion of the roll. The shaft portion is used as a rigid member mechanically interconnecting the rotary motions at both ends of the roll, thereby synchronizing the radial motions of both ends for obtaining exact parallel disengagement of the movable roll from the other roll.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1980Date of Patent: June 1, 1982Assignee: Oy Wartsila ABInventor: Jukka Joutsjoki
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Patent number: 4324212Abstract: This invention relates to a compressed air starter including pneumatically operating starting valves for diesel engines, wherein one main starting valve is connected to the cylinder head of the engine and is provided with a valve body, which co-operates with a valve seat in order to alternately open and close an inlet opening for compressed air to one cylinder, whereby during the start up of the engine, starting air (compressed air) continuously is supplied to the main starting valve, said valve body including one servo piston, which is controlled by servo air from a supply of servo air, which servo air acts on the servo piston during moments related to the working phase of the engine.The invention simplifies the pipe arrangement for the compressed air in a diesel engine with several cylinders where there is usually arranged a main distributor for distributing the servo or pilot air, which controls the starting valves.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 1979Date of Patent: April 13, 1982Assignees: Rederiaktiebolaget Nordstjernan, Oy Wartsila ABInventors: Olof Samuel, Heikki Hellemaa
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Patent number: 4323371Abstract: A method for treating gaseous combustion products, in particular, combustion products containing sulphur dioxide and smoke gases. The combustion products are led to a scrubber in which they are brought into contact with scrubbing water, into which a base, preferably calcium hydroxide, has been added for obtaining suitable neutralization of the acids created in the scrubber. The scrubbing water is sprayed into the gaseous combustion products, preferably in the form of a finely divided mist, and after the scrubbing operation the combustion products are led through a heat exchanger for cooling and for recovery of condensation water. The scrubbing water used and the condensation water are collected in a settling tank, at the bottom of which solid impurities are caused to settle for removal at suitable intervals. The purified surplus water is led from the settling tank and is reintroduced into the scrubber.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1980Date of Patent: April 6, 1982Assignee: Oy Wartsila AbInventor: Tapio Ritvanen
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Patent number: 4320640Abstract: A cylinder lock comprising a stationary cylinder housing and therein a turnable cylinder inclosing a plurality of tumbler discs turnable by means of the key of the lock. There is also a locking bar normally locking the cylinder non-turnably to the cylinder housing. When the tumbler discs have been brought to a releasing position, the locking bar can move closer to the center of the lock into a groove formed by alignment of peripheral recesses in the tumbler discs, and this releases the cylinder from its locking. In the lock there is also at least one composite tumbler disc including two parts, a first part and a second part, which are angularly adjustably connected to each other. The first part can be turned with a key. Within an adjustment sector the first part has such a small radial extension that it leaves the locking bar free to move radially to its cylinder-releasing position.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 1979Date of Patent: March 23, 1982Assignee: Oy Wartsila ABInventor: Jaakko Martikainen
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Patent number: 4317573Abstract: A sealing arrangement for sealing the lead-through of a valve spindle through the cover portion of a valve. The spindle is connected to a movable valve body. There is a radially supported elastic stuffing surrounding the spindle and an attachment member axially supporting the stuffing. In the inner space of the valve there is a stationary stop member for the valve body. The stop member prevents axial movement of the valve body, beyond the fully open position of the valve. The reaction force induced in the stop member by the valve body influences the stuffing via the spindle and causes an increased axial compression in the stuffing. Thereby, the stuffing, due to its elasticity, is pressed more firmly against its radial support, and thus, gives a better sealing effect in the fully open position of the valve.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1979Date of Patent: March 2, 1982Assignee: Oy Wartsila AbInventor: Jouko Karkkainen
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Patent number: 4317347Abstract: A cylinder lock comprising a cylinder housing and therein a turnable cylinder enclosing a plurality of tumbler discs turnable by means of the key of the lock. Between the cylinder housing and the peripheral edges of the tumbler discs, there is a locking bar locking the cylinder to the cylinder housing. This bar is movable from a position locking the cylinder, in which position it is located partly in a groove in the internal wall of the cylinder housing, to a position releasing the cylinder by entering a channel formed jointly by notches in the peripheral edges of the tumbler discs when the discs are turned to a certain position. The movement of the locking bar is laterally guided by means of guiding discs, at least substantially non-rotatably fitted with respect to the cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1979Date of Patent: March 2, 1982Assignee: Oy Wartsila AbInventors: Kaarlo Martikainen, Paavo Piiroinen
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Patent number: 4297751Abstract: A sewer system in which partial vacuum is used for transporting sewage through a sewer pipe to a collecting chamber or the like. The system comprises only a few sewage producing units, preferably only one at a time usable unit. The length of the sewer pipe from a sewage producing unit to the collecting chamber is comparatively small and the operating devices of the system are arranged to generate vacuum in the sewer pipe principally only for the time required for transporting each separate sewage discharge emitted into the sewer pipe. Preferably, the operating devices are arranged to stop generating the vacuum before the actual transport of the sewage takes part.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1979Date of Patent: November 3, 1981Assignee: Oy Wartsila ABInventors: Henry Olin, Nils Tallberg, Martti Varis
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Patent number: 4283821Abstract: A fiber roll and a method for producing the fiber roll comprising a load carrying shaft portion and having thereon a cover portion made of fiber material. The cover portion is made by subjecting a great number of annular fiber material sheets fitted on the shaft portion to a very strong compression in the axial direction of the roll. The method includes the step of making at least one supply duct leading from an end portion of the roll to the interface of the shaft portion and the cover portion. After the axial compression of the fiber material, a hardening fluid is fed through the supply duct and pressure is applied thereto so as to force the fluid to penetrate between the cover portion and the shaft portion and to fill all possible cavities between the shaft portion and the cover portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 1979Date of Patent: August 18, 1981Assignee: Oy Wartsila ABInventor: Eero Paakkunainen
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Patent number: 4267717Abstract: A cylinder lock comprising a fixed, hollow cylinder housing and therein a plurality of tumbler discs turnable by means of the key of the lock. Each tumbler disc has a peripheral recess, and there is a locking bar extending axially relative to the locking discs and being radially guided by them when moving between an outer locking position and an inner releasing position. There is also a turnable force-transmission member non-turnably connected to the locking bar. Between the locking discs, there are spacer discs, each provided with a peripheral recess at the position of the locking bar. This recess is so formed, that it guides, in the tangential direction of the spacer discs, the radial movement of the locking bar. The locking discs as well as the spacer discs are turnably guided and radially supported directly by the internal surface of the cylinder housing. The locking discs, the spacer discs and the locking bar have guiding surfaces acting in a tangential direction of the lock.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1979Date of Patent: May 19, 1981Assignee: Oy Wartsila AbInventor: Kaarlo Martikainen